isn t collusion. the most credible investigation team out there. we have to let mueller and his team do their job and get out of the way. we have to get out of the way and let them do their job. bill: now is your moment. i m not an impeachment democrat or that says i m a democrat says that mueller is one of the best prosecutors in the country and given the space to do his job. bill: richard, thank you. brad, thank you. talk to you real soon. sandra: we re minutes away from that grilling on capitol hill. facebook s co-founder and ceo mark zuckerberg back for more after five hours of intense questioning yesterday in the senate. what can we expect in the house hearing today? that begins in a couple minutes and wild weather in southern florida. what people saw in the fort lauderdale area next. trusted battery in your noise cancelling headphones? maybe not. maybe you could trust you won t be next to a loud eater. (eating potato chips loudly)
them to follow his lead. he is putting on the best face he can to try to hold the republican majority in the house. sandra: your point is well taken. hard to argue with the reasons he is providing behind this, right, john? he doesn t want his kids to only know him as a weekend dad. he has a young and big family and made it clear he loves his time back in his home state of wisconsin. as far as the future of his party he said i have every confidence that i will be handing the gavel to the next republican speaker of the house next year. that remains up in the air. ryan is probably right in the sense that this isn t going to be the biggest factor in the fall elections. the president s job approval will matter more. it has beening up a little bit. republicans can stand to lose the popular vote by 7 points and still cling to their majority. i do think paul ryan s
democratic strategy morris reid. wow, it s an all-star lineup, okay. we ll start with you, noelle, here. do you agree with the congressman? also, were you surprised that this came from this particular congressman? but that the president and his lawyers should lay off the attacks against the special counsel? 100%, alex. i agree 100%, because it makes sense, and also, consider the source. i mean, this is trey gowdy. this is a guy that was leading the investigations with benghazi. this is a 100% true, red, you know, gop crusader here. and he is saying, lay off, stop the tweeting, be smart. and if there s no collusion, which they re already saying, you know, that there isn t collusion, let mueller be mueller and stop trump from being trump! just stop it! so, yes, trey gowdy makes very good sense. and i m really glad that he said that and i m glad that he said
frankly imagined. well so, you know, there are a lot of things that are not mentioned in this indictment. we wouldn t say it vindicates somebody. i think the president would be well advised to take it easy on the claims of vindication at this point. that said, you know, he doesn t do that sort of thing. he s emotive, and he takes anything that could be read to suggest that there isn t collusion to mean that there isn t collusion. i would just say, you know, not having been indicted for something yet does not generally mean it doesn t happen. the fact is there s nothing in this indictment about the hacking operation, about wikileaks, about any of these connections, the dnc hack, which led to the podesta hack. right. this is a piece of the case involving russian interference on our social media platforms.
maybe there was. this is his chief white house strategist. steve bannon did something that really undermined the entire argument for a year. the white house and the president have said no collusion. by steve bannon using those words, unpatriotic, as well he undercuts the argument. i think that s why he got the very dramatic brush-off. not the stuff with the kids. this is the thing agreed. that is in the president s head and bothered him immensely. i would caution, again, with the confirmation bias, treating bannon as a reliable narrator, which we have never done before we should be careful about. we re going to get to bannon a bunch in the following block. i want to turn again to sessions, right. it seems like one of the things that is happening with sessions. he s always been on thin ice, but at this point you ve got house republicans now suggesting that he should step down. here is what jim jordan had to say. i like jeff sessions. i just want you to do your job.